Sentence examples for discovery flight from inspiring English sources

Owner Jean-Michel Cazes sent the bottle on the 1985 Discovery flight with French astronaut Patrick Baudry.

"It fell outside of the scope of looking at readiness for 114," he said, using NASA's official designation for the Discovery flight.

Prices for a discovery flight are £7.93 per pupil (cost of standard entry without a guide for under-16s is £5.59 and for 16 and over students £15.17).

William F. Readdy, a former astronaut who heads spaceflight operations, has said he will leave the agency after the Discovery flight, and more departures are likely as Mr. O'Keefe's successor, Michael D. Griffin, builds his own team.

He had been in training for the Discovery flight long enough to adopt the mien of an astronaut, forsaking senatorial togs for gray slacks and a polo shirt with the crew insignia.

A successful mission would bode well for the future of the Hubble Space Telescope, but the Discovery flight is also the beginning of the end for the shuttle system itself.

Five weeks after Discoverys flight, the March 14 launch of Soyuz TM-21 carried expedition EO-18 to Mir.

The day before, I called Miley to tell her about the discovery of Flight 447, and I knew she was still grappling with her feelings.

Using a new testing method, engineers were able to identify three valves that are free of cracks for the Discovery's flight.

The Discovery's flight last July, the first since the Columbia disaster, was plagued by a problem with the fuel sensors.

Documents for the Discovery's flight readiness review in June showed that engineers had found and dealt with tiny cracks along seals in the main engines and ruptures in some of the engines' nozzle tubes.